{"product_id":"9781526146496","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Afterlives of the Troubles : Life Stories, Culture and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland by Graham Dawson","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 10\/02\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on experiential life stories across a range of forms and practices, this book investigates subjectivity, culture and the cultural politics of representation as a neglected dimension of conflict transformation in the Northern Irish peace process. Interdisciplinary critical perspectives from historical cultural studies, oral history and popular-memory theory inform close interpretive engagement with life stories in their cultural, historical and geographical contexts. This enables exploration of the complex temporal dynamics of 'post-conflict' subjectivities in the lengthening 'afterlife' of the Troubles, where feelings attached to conflict experiences are not 'past' but haunt the present, and memory-work carries future-oriented desires for truth, justice and reconciliation. Through case studies responding to the evolving peace process through this prism of life-storytelling, Afterlives maps a contested history of legacy policy-making and approaches to 'dealing with the past', from devolution in 2005-7 through to the Legacy and Reconciliation Act of 2023. -- . \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368966861173,"sku":"9781526146496","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526146496","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}